Tempest in a Teapot: The Ceramic Art of Peter Shire by Hunter Drohojowska, Norman M. Klein & Ettore Sottsass
8vo. pp. 144. profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. bibliography. paperback (very good - small sticker residue on upper right corner of title-page, small sticker stain to upper right corner of cover, remainder stamp to bottom of text block). New York: Rizzoli, [1991].
First Edition.
ISBN-10: 0847813223 / ISBN-13: 9780847813223
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The ceramic teapots made by Los-Angeles-based artist Peter Shire straddle the line distinguishing functional objects and pure sculpture. Shire has single-handedly transformed a lowly household object into a remarkable subject matter, with which he has revolutionized the ceramics medium. His brightly coloured, imaginatively shaped, and often witty designed are created under the influence of pop culture, the transformations of the landscape of the late-twentieth -century artists and designers. Shire's teapots were an important element in the development of the Milan design movement Memphis in the early 1980s.